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A premium service turns the famous Moleskine journals into an app.

All the greats had one—Oscar Wilde, Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh. Travel writer Bruce Chatwin called the notebooks Moleskines in one of his novels and an Italian publisher took notice, rebranding the journals and striking marketing gold among today's ad men and artists, poets and posers.

The maker of those distinctive, hard-bound black notebooks now has given them a digital twist. You jot down your brilliant ideas in a Moleskine, just as you did before, but thanks to an innovative app, you can...